Professor Layton really knocks you out of your box top shoes and into a higher class of DS games. The first aspect of this game that truly is awe-inspiring is (incidentally) the first thing you see.. The cinematics. They're gr- wait, cinematics... in a DS game? That aren't poorly done 3D and are in fact beautiful hand drawn style animations that kick off the game in the way that it continues to go. Next is the meat and potatoes of this game. PUZZLE PUZZLE PUZZLE! Word puzzles, Connect the dot puzzles, math puzzles. This game has all kinds of puzzles. Essentially you get easy puzzles at the start and they gradually get harder, this is where the game has it's only major fault. You see the sense of accomplishment you get when you finish a puzzle correctly is vastly superior to any other achievement feeling after playing Magical Drop and getting to level 100! (DROOL!) This is the main reason this game is so great, it nails the mechanic of beating puzzles with a sense of accomplishment that it just keeps you coming back for more. The game also facilitates my needing to become the ultimate completist in that it stores the unfinished or unfound puzzles in one house so you can come back and beat them.
